SuperCounselor has left the building! She is done for the year. She cleaned out her filing cabinets and email inbox, sorted all her binders, bookshelves, games, and toys, and left everything perfectly arranged so that she’ll be all ready to go when she walks back into school in August. She was probably whistling, a la Snow White, while she worked! Now, on her first day of summer vacation, her school uniform is laundered and put away, and she’s already packed to leave for the American Super Counselor Association conference in Gotham City. (We mere mortals will be at our own version of ASCA in Philadelphia!)
SuperCounselor has hung up her uniform for the summer!
I’m finally “done” with school too, after finishing up with a week of planning for the expansion of our PBiS program. But while SuperCounselor sang her way through tidying up, I muttered my way through the required, but more-or-less pointless, process of completely dis-assembling my room (a 1/2 day exercise in frustration, which will be repeated, in reverse, in just a few weeks.) I got most of it done, but have to admit that Ishoved a good chunk of my “to be filed” pile into a drawer, and generally just tried to stem the tide enough to be able to convince myself that it was okay to walk away. Done is a state of mind. Perhaps a delusional one.
SuperCounselor’s end-of-year experience.
My end-of-year experience. Not quite the same Wonderful World of Disney!
I’m not packed yet, but in every other way, I’m very ready to head to the ASCA conference in Philadelphia tomorrow. I’m so looking forward to gathering new ideas and meeting lots of other school counselors, many of whom I’ve gotten to know through blogging. If you’re attending the conference, I hope you’ll come to the Blogger Meet and Greet on Tuesday, July 2, from 8:00-9:00pm in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. I have loved hearing from so many of you via this blog and social media, and it would be great to meet you in person! Andrea Joyner from JYJCounselor and Danielle Schultz from School Counselor Blog are hosting the event, which will also include our school counseling colleagues from Elementary School Counseling, Entirely Elementary School Counseling, From the Counselor’s Office, The Counseling Geek, and School Counselor Online Professional Exchange (SCOPE). I cannot WAIT to meet these amazing colleagues, from whom I have learned so much!
Please come if you can! Don’t be shy, everyone is bound to be really nice, understanding, and welcoming. We’re all school counselors, right? The place is going to be just rife with kindness!!!! See you there!
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Have fun everyone! Sorry I can’t be there!
It was great to meet you at the conference. I am inspired enough to give it a try. Plus I learned about Pinterest which seems fun too . Your New England neighbor from Maine. Tracey
It was great to meet you too, Tracey, and good to run into another representative of northern New England – I think we were a rare breed! I plan to link my Pinterest boards to the blog soon, but if you want to see what I’ve got pinned before I do that, you can find what I’ve pinned by searching my name.